The looming draft

George W. Bush's military will (and already is to an extent) either be unfit to meet current demands and unable to provide a legitimate deterrent to threats or composed of soldiers compelled to join by the force of a DRAFT.

The active-duty Army is in danger of failing to meet its recruiting goals, and is beginning to suffer from manpower strains like those that have dropped the National Guard and Reserves below full strength, according to Army figures and interviews with senior officers.

Young men and women refuse to sign up to fight Bush's perpetual war.

Currently the Pentagon is working in the margins -- using such policies as "stop-loss," accelerated training, etcetera -- to wring as much capability from its current forces as possible. At some point, however, the military is going to hit a wall without a shift in current recruiting patterns or a draft.